Ship My Equipment To Colocate
Jan 8, 2008what is the best company i can shiped my equipment to it and they
our company outside usa and we need good company can offer full solutions
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Best Way To Ship 2u Server To DC?
Oct 22, 2009I have a Dell Poweredge 2850 2u server, and having problems finding a box to ship it out to a datacenter. How do you pack it, and what shipper do you use?
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Mar 27, 2007What I figured out is probably I need to have my own server as I am not finding them as an offer anywhere, reasonable enough to buy.
We do application hosting, and this is what we have seen until now isWe have database intensive applications
Never used beyond 300 GB of our metered bandwidth
All Applications consumed maximum of 3 GB space till date
All databases have never grown beyond 3 GB.
So we thought to have server with following specs and then collocate.AMD Opteron Dual Core
2 x 36 GB SCSI drives
Currently 2 GB RAM but should expandable to 4 GB
Preferred Super Micro motherboard (with IMPI)
1000-1500 GB metered quality bandwidth
10 mps dedicated port (up gradable to 100 mps like Softlayer)
Remote reboot port
6- IPs
Problems:We are not located in US
Never collocated before and do not know any intricacies.
Will colocation is practical option to us? If so, please help us know the RIGHT COLOCATION SPECS, the expected cost and the thing we should consider for decision. Also the appropriate server specs to order.
How Do You Colocate In Far Far Away Land
Nov 9, 2009how to proceed with collocation say somewhere in usa ? Since i am based in Canada, and dell.com wont accept orders from me..... i did end up buying a server and get it shipped here and than later ship it across border and pay hefty fees for that to just get server collocated.
How do you guys do it ? Where you get your parts() from ?
Above all i am still lost as to what 95th percentile rule is and how the $xy per xy mbps works?
Self-host Or Colocate
Feb 27, 2007I am hosting my own web site on Jboss using my home windows machine.
Currently everything is running smooth apart from the now-and-then disonnection from my cable ISP (normal connection-not business)
Should I just get a business internet connection and do things myslef or should I consider colocating my server?
Companies That Build Servers And Ship?
Mar 9, 2008are there specific companies that build servers for you and then you have it shipped?
also how much bandwidth should one be using to consider a switch to colo from dedicated?
Why Colocate When You Can Just Rent A Server
Jun 5, 2008colocate because you have sites the size of myspace or because you offer dedicated server hosting yourselves? Because if I have the choice of renting a high end server at ThePlanet for $200 per month, or pay $300 a month for only bandwidth and just to have my server sit there in their facility, I rather rent. Plus I read a few posts in this forum where you guys say that you spend hours in the colocate. Does your server require that much maintenance or what are you doing?
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Aug 3, 2007Received this gem last night:
Quote:
-----Original Message-----
From: AnchorVPS Support
Sent: Fri, August 3, 2007 1:14 am
To: xxxxxx@talanovmedia.com
Subject: IMPORTANT - BACKUP YOUR DATA
AnchorVPS System Message:
08/03/2007 12:14 AM
Hello,
AnchorVPS is now unable to provide any service to any of
our clients. We ask that you backup your data within 48 hours and find
another provider.
If you have any questions or queries then
please contact us at support@anchorvps.com
Thank
You,
AnchorVPS Administration
Never thought a company would do this to their own clients. 48 hour notice?
Thought the headers in the email were suspect so I decided to open up a ticket asking if this is a legitimate message.
Quote:
Jason Min
Posted On: 03 Aug 2007 09:22 AM
Yes it is.
Regards,
Jason
Your thoughts?
Edit:
TOS
Quote:
Termination
This Agreement may be terminated: (i) by you or AnchorVPS during any Renewal Term, without cause, by giving the other party no less than seven (7) days prior written notice.
Original Boxes To Ship The Servers Back
Apr 7, 2007For VOIP traffic I am thinking of moving some servers from bay area to C4D.
I store all my server boxes so its easy to UPS them.
My question is if i wanted the servers to be shipped back from c4d in case of any reason in future do they keep the original boxes around to ship the servers back?
Good Place To Colocate VPS Nodes
Jun 10, 2008Where's a good place in North America to colocate VPS nodes and can provide me the resouces to run effective VPS nodes? (bandwidth, power, etc.)
I live in Toronto, Canada (East coast).
Is KVM Equipment Necessary
Jul 25, 2007Couldn't you just remote access into your server from elsewhere? This would save you the hassle and cost of buying/installing/maintaing the KVM equipment?
In the rare case where you have no network access but need access to the server, then you could directly plug keyboard, monitor, and mouse into the server directly, right?
And in cases where you do have network access, couldn't you just plug in your laptop into the network in the colocation facility or wherever and remote access to the servers sitting two feet away from you?
Old Equipment
Feb 26, 2007We have 3 1-U servers and a 1-U UPS located in a datacenter in Vancouver. If we were also located in Vancouver, I'd probably just eBay things off. However, I'm not anywhere close to there, and I can't ask the people running the datacenter to package them up and ship them off to eBay sellers. Any suggestions for how to get rid of the equipment and maybe make some money?
I did some Googling for computers liquidators in Vancouver and didn't find much. Ideally I'd want some local firm to just show up, pick up the goods, and at some point pay me for them.
Old 1U Server Equipment And Its Use.
Apr 16, 2007As I sit here typing this I have a stack of 10 1U 866MHZ P3 Servers in front of me.
Sometimes its possible to sell these off to some sorry soul on ebay, however if not ebay what else? I would hate to throw them out and I would like to think they could be used for something. Perhaps I could upgrade the hard drives and turn them into file servers, but then how could I even break even with the cost of co-location.
Specifics
P3 866MHZ
256MB Ram (up ro 512)
10GB HD
Purchasing Off Lease Equipment
Oct 23, 2009I've been searching Google for a few days in hopes of finding companies that take off lease server equipment (sometimes almost brand new) and auctioning it off to people.
I've been buying alot of equipment through resellers of these places but I would like to cut out the middle man expense and bid for myself.
For example. This week I purchased ten Dell PowerEdge R200's with X3220 Xeon CPU's in them. These are fairly new. I don't want to buy first generation single-core xeon servers.
Look forward to finding out who is supplying these people.
DDoS Protection Equipment
Jul 6, 2008After a year we are here to see if we have any changes in the market of ddos protection equipment that dedicated server companies or datacenters can use to protect their networks and clients from different kinds of attacks.
If the solution you use is not listed there,
Fiber Switch And Equipment
May 21, 2007Me and my friend are looking to place a few servers for a soho (3 servers or so). We need advise as the incoming connectivity will be fiber so we need to know what do we need to receive that fiber, we opted to go for the catalyst 2950 for the switch but if there's a good fiber switch,
Fiber will be 10mbps.
Collocated Equipment Insurance
Jan 8, 2007Over the next year we are working to migrate all of our shared servers from leased dedicated servers to our own collocated equipment. As you can imagine it is a slow process, but we are getting there.
By this next week we will have about ten servers and a couple of switches colo'd. I am thinking it is time we looked at insuring the equipment we have colo'd and get it taken care of before we build up the volume anymore.
Is anyone able to recommend someone we may be able to contact to obtain insurance on our equipment? All of our equipment is at Colo4Dallas, in Dallas, TX split between our rack there and their secure storage room (spare parts, switch, chassis etc.).
I tried contacting our insurance company here in the United Kingdom to see if we could add it on to our office insurance but they became very hesitant when I mentioned the hardware was in Dallas, despite the fact it is probably more secure in the Colo4Dallas data center than our office.
So I guess we would be looking for a US insurance company that specializes in this type of thing. We would be looking to protect against equipment being damaged due to things like power surges, being dropped by a technician etc.
Disaster Recovery - Renting Equipment
Oct 21, 2009I'm putting together a disaster recovery plan and I'm trying to come up with a quick way to get new machines in place in case of catastrophic hardware failure, e.g. two servers go down at the same time (this is an HA setup and must always remain fault tolerant). At this point I'm trying to find someone who would rent a server to me, allowing me to take physical possession of it.
Why do I need physical possession of it? The problem is that I use IP-based storage on a private network and therefore can't rely on a rented server in another cabinet, even across the aisle in the same datacenter, without adding significant complexity to my setup.
So my question, in summary, is this: What would be the fastest, cheapest and simplest way to get a new server in my cabinet in a few short hours?
My servers are going to be in Colo4Dallas, so if there's a provider there who specializes in this or has made an arrangement with you or someone you know in the past, please let me know about them. If you can think of a better way to do things (the obvious solution of investing in more servers excluded),
Does It Matter If The Company Owns Its Equipment
Feb 29, 2008employees, owners, customers and everyone feel free to join in and tell us what you think.
Do you feel that your data is safe if the company manages their own servers? By manage I mean they fully own and operate their own hardware.
Or does it not matter as long as the company is a long time and known provider? Do you ask yourself this question when you look for a host?
Customers Leaving Equipment In Colo
Oct 16, 2007What happens if you quit paying your bill, or just forget to for three months. Then you don't contact the colo. What happens with your equipment,
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I wonder if some data center will purchase it just to hook it up for the flashing lights... would be quite impressive.
Wait a second, that was already done in North Atlanta and Las Vegas, wasnt it?
I wonder why HE didnt donate it to the tech museum in San Jose... would have been a better write off then selling it.
why I am musing so far off topic on a gorgeous Sunday morning?